{"id":88499,"date":"2025-12-17T07:26:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88499"},"modified":"2025-12-17T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:29:20","slug":"people-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/17\/people-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"People matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday's poll that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCGlMOIZ1A3zluwLXTGpzZfw\/posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we posted<\/a> on YouTube received a surprisingly large response. 16,000 people had voted by early this morning, and the message was clear:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.00.33-550x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.00.33-550x300.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.00.33-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.00.33-600x327.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.00.33.png 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are moments when I feel that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People are decent<\/li>\n<li>The message is getting through<\/li>\n<li>Doing this is worthwhile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, of course, I know all about selection bias amongst those voting, but so what: that does not invalidate any of the conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>People matter is the message, and I could not agree more.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/16\/inequality-is-a-political-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">equivalent poll here<\/a> produced this result:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.27.52-550x248.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.27.52-550x248.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.27.52-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.27.52-1536x692.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.27.52-600x270.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-17-at-07.27.52.png 1744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The number of voters was considerably smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s poll that we posted on YouTube received a surprisingly large response. 16,000 people had voted by early this morning, and the message was clear:<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/17\/people-matter\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,35,16,147,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-inequality","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88499"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88511,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88499\/revisions\/88511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}